ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Fri, 7 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/515146/7-ways-to-transform-studio-culture-and-bring-it-into-the-21st-century Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Lori Brown & Joseph Godlewski https://www.archdaily.com/515146/7-ways-to-transform-studio-culture-and-bring-it-into-the-21st-century In a posthumous 1990 essay “A Black Box: The Secret Profession of Architecture”, Reyner Banham warned of architecture’s corrosive trend toward insulating itself from discussions outside of the discipline. Decades later, architecture finds itself in an even more dire state of affairs. Despite a transformed global context, the same paternalistic model of studio culture that has existed since the Beaux Arts remains in place. “Studio culture”, as currently practiced, promotes an outdated and parochial understanding of how design knowledge is produced, valuing expertise over synthesis and image over process and practice.

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